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- Developed and implemented product line strategic plans, including market and competitive analysis for the Poly Chain and synchronous metals product lines; full product line worth $211M in 2020.- Managed rapid growth of product line by >50% in 2021 by connecting multiple cross-functional teams to ensure raw material procurement, manufacturability, and delivery - Drove the growth targets and expansion of my product line by creating a plan including process improvements to increase capacity on existing equipment and equipment purchases. - Created business plan, promoted, and managed the purchase of $3M worth of new equipment to expand production capacity 100% to enable rapid growth in emerging markets.- Led product launch of Moto X9, worked with marketing, commercial and engineering teams to create marketing documents, website content, and promotional activities.- Developed product roadmaps and collaborated with engineering to layout technology roadmaps that support product growth targets and vitality metrics.- Identified, justified, and prioritized strategic initiatives and NPD projects to obtain desired sales growth and achieve investor revenue and profitability targets.

Greater Denver Area

• Independently lead and executed a new product development project from initiation through completion. Project is valued at $100M.• Lead a cross functional project team including marketing, engineering, procurement, and process engineering.• Develop and implement project charters and metrics, obtain stakeholder alignment, identify project risks and develop risk mitigation plans, resolve conflicts.• Prepare and present project updates and review-gate proposals to multiple levels of upper management.• Utilize business knowledge and technical skills to effectively assess risk, develop contingencies and determine when to elevate issues.• Collaborate with process engineers and engineering managers to coordinate efforts and define and leverage best practices.• Develop with team and monitor quality assurance measures based upon the industry specifications and Gates internal product marketing specifications.• Provide technical assistance on project and design related issues, collaborate with design lead during feasibility and development phases.• Control project scope variance through root cause analysis, implement and manage project changes.

Boulder, Co

Project Manager 2015 – Current• Represent technical communications department at NPD core team meetings and lead labeling development, implementation, and inspection processes. • Plan and schedule project timelines and milestone, and maintain communication with project stakeholders about progress on milestones, deliverable and manage expectations.• Assemble and coordinate multi-disciplinary project teams.• Develop project plan, define project scope, objectives, resources, and deliverables.• Monitor quality assurance measures• Control project scope variance through root cause analysis and implement and manage project changes and interventions.• Track project deliverables and deliver to clients, team members, and project stakeholders per project schedule.• Lead a team of eight on a rebranding initiative of 600 product codes that saved the company 2.5 million in royalty fees.• Developed project plan to identify key issues in previous rebranding projects, approaches and performance metrics.• Created training materials and lead training for rebranding team• Developed and presented reports on metrics and project progress.• Optimized workflow to reduce project timeline from 12 months to 10 months.• Facilitate meetings with necessary functional groups, suppliers, vendors, and manufacturing sites to review and resolve any labeling issues and requirements for new and existing products ensuring compliance with governing bodies.• Assist manufacturing sites for labeling revisions and to resolve labeling issues as required and support the label review process and ECO workflow submissions for labeling projects as needed.

• Managed two districts with revenue totaling 6 million dollars and was project manager on all new product development, testing, and evaluation in a fast paced, quick turnaround market.• Evaluated current market needs and determine applications where current designs were below average and prioritize where design resources should be utilized.• Quantified objectives of new design and prepared documentation to show weaknesses of current product to provide ideas on addressing weaknesses• Coordinated field tests with city salesmen, clients and field sales and created engineering documentation on test product and testing specifications for personal reference and customer reports.• Compiled final evaluation of all tested product and decided the success or failure and whether to standardize or obsolete.

Columbus, Ohio Area

• Partnered with Assistant Superintendent to conduct the QA/QC inspection, reviewing above ceiling MEP routing's, insulation, valves, etc. and inspecting wall penetrations, etc., and documenting the inspection in field. .• Designed a layout of an outside AHU curb over an existing building roof with the use of CAD to develop and then used for checking accuracy.

Columbus, Ohio Area

• Maintained spreadsheets to calculate bridge load ratings using MS Excel.• Conducted in field observations and recorded data and measurements.